827  Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

1073  Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

300  Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

913  In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

887  Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.